How Rob T started their logo design journey

Summary

We need two new logos for a couple of our sites which are being completely redesigned. The first site is FreeWii.com, which is an incentive-based website that gives away Nintendo Wii consoles, games, and accessories. The second logo will be for QuikPrizes.com, which we are currently in the process of launching.

Company name

QuikPrizes and FreeWii

What inspires you and how do you envision the design for your business?

Desired Color Scheme:
open to ideas on color, need both white/black backgrounds, FreeWii logo should use a similar blue/white color scheme as the device

Desired Style:
See description for style info.

Accepted File Formats:
png, psd, gif, jpg and as many other formats as you can provide it in.

QuikPrizes.com will be our incentive site network, similar to FreePay. Most of our other freebie sites will be branded as "QuickPrizes" sites. FreeWii will be part of the QuikPrizes network, but due to it's branding potential, we want it to have a separate logo/design that is unique to the site, but matches with the rest of the QuikPrizes network.

The QuikPrizes logo should signify the two parts of it's name - we give away free prizes, and we do it Quick! This logo should be clean, use bold colors, and should look good on a black or white background, both of which are needed. Please plan to provide the logo in as many file formats as possible (png, psd, gif, jpg, etc). I would like the original to be high-res, approx. 1200 x 300 pixels or larger. Exact dimensions are not terribly important, but it should be a long rectangle.

The FreeWii logo will need to be themed similarly to the QuickPrizes logo, but customized for the FreeWii.com site. We have not yet begun the redesign of this site, so we will likely redesign the site around the colors and theme of the logo. I'd like this logo to incoporate some 'Wii' colors - primarily White and light blue (see current site for ideas), but feel free to use other colors as well. We will want the dimensions and resolution of the logo graphic for FreeWii to be roughly the same as the specs for QuikPrizes given above.

I'm also considering having a third graphic created that will link FreeWii with QuikPrizes - i.e. 'FreeWii - a member of the QuikPrizes Network' or something like that that would be displayed elsewhere on the page - submissions including that third graphic incorporating will be given more consideration, since it will take more work off my back when we are incorporating the rest of the designs.